On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Robert Haas
<robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
In theory, I think you could make postgres work on any type of
underlying storage you like by writing a second smgr implementation
that would exist alongside md.c. The fly in the ointment is that
you'd need a more sophisticated implementation of this line of code,
from smgropen:
reln->smgr_which = 0; /* we only have md.c at present */
I believe there is more than that which would need to be done nowadays. I seem to recall that the storage manager abstraction has slowly been dedicated/optimized for md over the past 6 years or so. It may even be easier/preferred to write a hadoop specific access method depending on what you're looking for from hadoop.
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